Art
Art
Rodney McMillian, Department Chair
Rodney McMillian, Department Chair

The top-ranked university studio-art program nationally, the UCLA Department of Art empowers students to reshape their worlds through critical inquiry and transformative creativity. Committed to equity and inclusion in art, it attracts diverse, highly motivated students who are encouraged to engage society's challenges and envision change. Students work with a faculty of internationally recognized artists in rigorous studio courses, developing skills in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Ceramics, New Genres, and Interdisciplinary Studio. Intensive making is augmented by courses in art history, critical theory, and a broad exposure to art in one of the world's leading cultural centers.
Bachelor of Arts
Latin Honors Candidate

Jester Bulnes' work looks at the intersections of culture, identity, and aesthetics enacted through both performance and materiality.
Latin Honors Candidate

I am an enthusiastic, responsible and hard working person. I am skilled in putting materials together and describe indescribable feelings or thoughts through my artwork.
Latin Honors Candidate

I explore the construction of gender in relation to spaces and objects, which engage with the circular nature of trauma and the way history shapes the present.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles and am of Mexican and Honduran descent. Currently interested in personal history and archive, artifacts, trash, hybridization and body markings
Latin Honors Candidate

Through portraiture, I navigate the spaces between my Japanese, Mexican, and American selves. How is identity formed, expressed, and perceived in a shifting societal landscape?
Latin Honors Candidate

Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate

Katie La Cava is an artist who utilizes satire and tactile materiality to create pieces that comment on our virtual world and its damning consequences.
In my art practice I focus on drawing, painting, photography and fiber arts. Through these mediums I investigate my relationship to diaspora, climate disaster, and life cycles.
Latin Honors Candidate

Leaning on the aesthetics of cartooning and popular culture, I use the medium of painting to investigate distinct personal connections between physical space, memory, and time.

Mary has enjoyed all 4 years here at UCLA and thanks God, family, friends, and sponsors for the extraordinary support they have given to her and for forming the woman she is today.
Miglė bridges her interdisciplinary practice in painting, sculpture and installation with games, and explores topics related to her Eastern European heritage and identity.
Cum Laude
Alexia Saigh is a Los Angeles based photographer and painter focusing on the relationship between color and form that transcends time. She will pursue a Master’s in Paris next year

My artwork is an attempt to share wonder. I convert inspiring objects from my childhood and everyday life into symbols that represent my thoughts and feelings.

Soleil Sanchez is a Native Latinx artist who uses photography, drawing, and painting to explore Latinx family dynamics and cultural nuances.

Rooted in constant observation and poeticized curation, my work aims to capture the paradoxical essence of a modern femininity—both soft yet unapologetically expressive.
Latin Honors Candidate
Cum Laude

I use “non-art” materials to explore the effects of industrial resource extraction on my physical environment, and critique/performance to examine my social/academic environment.

Siqi Sun is an artist specializing in printmaking and oil painting. Her creative pursuits are dedicated to producing works that explore concepts revoled around the self.
Cum Laude

Mary graduated from UCLA with an Art major and minors in French and Arts Ed. She is a teaching artist across 3 LA institutions and her practice centers on drawing and textiles.
Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate
Master of Fine Arts

Haniko Zahra's figurative paintings invite the viewer to contemplate the contradictions of the human condition in vibrant and evocative compositions.

Boz Garden is an artist and theorist whose interdisciplinary practice works within the material and conceptual impasses between Afropessimism and psychoanalysis.

One of my works explores my anxiety, how environment and culture can cause anxiety in people. I also explore things that humans have turned a blind eye to or forgotten.

Using her personal familial archive as source material, Amie Sillah employs photography as a means to explores performance, memory, refusal and removal.